International Relations

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About Program

The European Commission has integrated its various educational and training initiatives under a single umbrella, the Lifelong Learning Programme.
The programme enables individuals at all stages of their lives to pursue stimulating learning opportunities across Europe. There are four sub-programmes focusing on different stages of education and training and continuing previous programmes:

Erasmus is the EU's flagship education and training programme, enabling two hundred thousand students to study and work abroad each year, as well as supporting co-operation actions between higher education institutions across Europe. It caters not only for students, but also for professors and business staff who want to teach abroad and for university staff who wants to be trained abroad.

Erasmus has become a driver in the modernisation of higher education in Europe and inspired the establishment of the Bologna Process. The general aim of the Programme is to create a European Higher Education Area and foster innovation throughout Europe.

Erasmus became part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme in 2007 and expanded to cover new areas such as student placements in enterprises (transferred from the Leonardo da Vinci programme), university staff training and teaching for enterprise staff. The Programme seeks to expand its mobility actions even further in coming years, with the target of 3 million Erasmus students by 2012.

Actions include support for:

For students:

  • studying abroad
  • working abroad
  • linguitic preparation

    For university/higher education institute staff: 
  • teaching training abroad
  • receiving training abroad

    For universities/ higher education institutes:
  • intensive programmes
  • academic and structural networks
  • multilateral projects

    For enterprises:
  • student placements
  • teaching abroad
  • university cooperation

    Higher education institutions which want to participate in Erasmus actions must have an Erasmus University Charter. The Charter aims to guarantee a high level of quality in mobility and cooperation by setting out fundamental principles for all Erasmus actions that participating institutes must follow.

    Erasmus Extended University Charter

    IBS is proud to announce that it has been awarded an Erasmus University Charter (Erasmus ID code LT VILNIUS 19). The extended charter permits IBS to participate in the Lifelong Learning Programme from 2007. Apart from giving the university the right to participate in Erasmus, the Charter outlines the fundamental principles of Erasmus and the minimum terms and conditions that the participating universities must respect in carrying out Erasmus activities.


    Further information:

    Education Exchanges Support Foundation (http://www.smpf.lt/)
    Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission (http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm)